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5 minutes ago, Jotari said:

Where are these polls even held? I never vote on them.

They used to be on Twitter, but then the Elon and X stuff happened. Apparently, they're using something called Qualtrics for these polls now.

When one of these polls is going on, you can find a link to it on the Notification Board in-game.

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So, the Three Houses HoF lineup (underwhelming as it is) was once again denied victory due to vote botting. It's actually incredible that IS is apparently fine with letting this bullshit continue

Anyways, "popular demand" has determined that the Genealogy lineup (Fallen Julia, Ballroom Eldigan, Ballroom Lachesis, Ballroom Ethlyn) will be the HoF re-run in March. I'm pretty sure the Thracia lineup (to shock of basically no one) will not be returning in the next HoF re-run "poll".

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19 minutes ago, Jotari said:

I don't think we'll end up even getting a base version of Greil. Ike already stole Urvan, the Valentine Greil is already, basically, the default design and there's just too many Tellius characters vying for the spot on a banner. In an absolute sense Tellius is the roster with the most characters not in the game to get through. The only thing Greil has going for him is that we haven't got Ettard or Regal Sword Ike yet.

Perhaps not Greil but maybe, just maybe, we get Gawain as a Legendary Hero.

Path of Radiance doesn't have any Legendaries or Mythics. Outside of Gawain, I don't know any other possible Legendaries or Mythics who could fall under Path of Radiance instead of Radiant Dawn besides maybe Elena. If they start giving Legendaries to villains (besides F!Grima and Eitri), then Black Knight could possibly be a PoR Legendary instead of a RD Legendary.

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6 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:

Fafnir (12/2021 or 1/2022, not sure)

I believe only the first New Year’s banner (with Azura, Takumi and Camilla) was released in December. The rest of them have released on New Year’s Day.

Though if there’s any luck, Fafnir could escape alt only hell this year. We should be getting Book V for the next TT storyline, so Fafnir could be the July Mythic Hero like Freyr was last year.

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5 hours ago, Jotari said:

Not quite six years yet, but let's face it, no way we're getting an Awakening banner between now and June. If they're smart the won't have an Awakening banner this year at all...but I've been saying that for quite awhile now and they just keep giving us Awakening at a higher rate than Thracia.

Yeah, Awakening is very likely not getting another New Heroes banner this year.

They did have two New Heroes banners for Awakening back during Book VI, but I can't see them doing that again in Book VIII with how few characters Awakening has left to add.

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Let us all not forget the first queen of alt only hell: Charlotte. She was there from 05/30/2017 until 07/19/2021.

Of course, Noire has indeed since surpassed Charlotte. The exact date of Noire’s entrance to alt only hell was 06/21/2018. So while it hasn’t reached six years quite yet, Noire has been stuck there for five years and six (soon to be seven) months.

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Just throwing it out there that, prior to Nabata Hawkeye, Panic Ploy was last given to a 2020 GHB (Gangrel). 

Anyways, the Sacred Seals for the next Tempest Trials are Threat. Atk/Res and Spd/Def Rein.

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6 minutes ago, Jotari said:

I'm quite sure Adult Tiki and Young Tiki have always had separate vote totals. Even Yong Tiki and TMS Tiki are considered separate characters.

Yes, all of that is true. Young Tiki, Adult Tiki (when she was still on the ballot) and TMS Tiki are all separate options and always have been.

Young Tiki also used to have separate totals for Shadow Dragon and New Mystery, just like every other Archanea character who appears in both games.

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33 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:

Huh. Didn’t expect Tormod or that Rindo would be voicing him.

Meanwhile on the Japanese side, he happens to have a VA who hasn't been seen in quite some time: Maaya Uchida (Sharena's VA).

Is the drought of Sharena content finally near its end, dare I ask?

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23 minutes ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:

One thing this banner makes me wonder about is the next New Heroes banner for Binding Blade. Juno's VA is obviously getting work, so I wonder if that means she's a lock for the next NH banner for her game. It'd likely be around the time we get Heroes OCs for whatever TT+ storyline they got going, so maybe it'll be an OC, Juno, Zelot, and Trec as a freebie, with Shanna/Thea being an alt? GHB that one pegasus boss who happened to be Juno's rival or whatever?

Nah, Suzie Yeung already did work before this. They had her voice Patty back in September.

And speaking of Patty, they sure have Febail's English VA voicing Tormod. Between that and Krizia Bajos casually voicing two characters on the same banner, I somehow get the impression IS didn't want to spend too much money on the English voice acting for this banner.

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I'm legitimately confused as to both why Juno is here and why does she now join Dorothea, Ashe, etc. as a character with multiple seasonals but no base version. I was seriously expecting to see some popular Fodlan character like Yuri here, but I guess IS is entirely fine with this banner month in general being underwhelming after they made bank in December.

@Sunwoo I know this won't mean much, but Tormod at least has a lot of Tellius friends in alt only hell. I'm sorry that IS did this to him. I wanted Tormod too (not as much as you, obviously) but on a New Heroes banner.

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24 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:

Now I just realized that, counting her backpack alt, Altina is about to get her fourth version into the game, which is more than anyone Im Tellius except for Ike, Micaiah, Soren and Sanaki have!(it's tied with Soren and Sanaki...).

Meanwhile, Nephenee still only has that dancer alt from 2019.

IS is very lucky that Resplendent Nephenee has top tier art, otherwise I'd be far more frustrated right now.

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16 minutes ago, Othin said:

I like Altina, but what are they going to do with this version of her? Finally give her a new weapon? Make her a sword cavalry this time?

She appears to have an axe (possibly two, but there's at least one there) in the silhouette, so I guess that's something.

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26 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:

I just kind of assume at this point that Micaiah bias and Sanaki bias also apparently extends to their barely-a-character-in-her-own-games ancestor. But not to their other is-actually-the-reason-this-game-exists-and-is-alive ancestor, because male.

Blame people for not voting for Sephiran or Lehran in CYL, then.

The highest Sephiran has ever gotten was 114th in CYL4. Then he got that Winter alt in December 2020, and he hasn't come anywhere close to that place since. Sephiran only got 296th in CYL7, while Lehran (who is a separate option) got 224th.

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24 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:

Yeah seems like it (isn't Altina a character that is only mentioned on her home game, like the 8 legends of Elibe or the crusaders in FE4? I wonder how she came to get another alt... Alas if it means a double phase brave weapon I won't complain). 

Yes, but Altina did place at 85th in CYL7. Among the Tellius characters, she only placed behind: Soren (2nd), Elincia (14th), Black Knight (15th), Mia (31st), Nephenee (43rd), and Zelgius (64th).

24 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:

Also I bet Igrene will be here too, and I wouldn't be surprised too if she was in the Harmonic.

As has already been established, the character leading the Harmonized Hero should be from Binding Blade.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean that said character has to be from Nabata (like Igrene, Fae, Sophia or Idunn). Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if we get Fir. Her mother did show up on this seasonal two years ago.

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1 hour ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:

So, if we really are getting Altina, I think it's pretty absurd that she's coming again while characters like Nephenee and Jill have gotten bupkis. Is Altina really that popular and in-demand?

Altina placed at 85th in CYL7, which puts her ahead of Jill (187th) but not Nephenee (43rd).

As a fan of Nephenee, I’m just used to IS ignoring her. Though, I suppose is it kinda wild that Nephenee has gotten so little when she shares her JP voice actress with Lyn.

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1 hour ago, Sunwoo said:

Why is Nidhoggr already in the top 5 for Heroes she's had less screentime than even fucking Gullveig did at this point in the story

I feel like I'd understand Ratatoskr and the other sister whose name I don't want to look up how to spell right now if they were top 5 for Heroes, but seriously?

Probably just because “hah hah, funny drunk snake lady”.

Be glad that the deer dude wasn’t eligible, because I feel he probably could’ve made it into the top 20 males.

It’s Hraesvelgr for the other sister, at least without the funky combined “ae” letter. I don’t know how to type those type of letters, either on mobile or PC.

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These are apparently the top 5 from each game (note: they are also listed alphabetically):

Shadow Dragon: Caeda, Catra, Minerva, Navarre, Tiki
Valentia: Berkut, Delthea, Faye, Mae, Rinea
New Mystery: Caeda, Clarisse, Katarina, Kris (Male), Tiki
Genealogy: Ayra, Finn, Ishtar, Julia, Sigurd
Thracia: Finn, Leif, Linoan, Mareeta, Reinhardt
Binding: Fae, Fir, Idunn, Lilina, Sophia
Blazing: Athos, Lloyd, Ninian, Nino, Sonia
Sacred: L'Arachel, Lyon, Marisa, Myrrh, Seth
Radiance: Black Knight, Elincia, Mia, Nephenee, Titania
Radiant: Black Knight, Elincia, Mia, Nephenee, Zelgius
Awakening: Anna, Cordelia, Grima, Robin (Female), Tharja
Fates: Azura, Corrin (Male), Leo, Takumi, Xander
Heroes: Alfonse, Fjorm, Freyja, Nidhoggr, Sharena
TMS: Itsuki & Chrom, Maiko, Tiki, Touma & Cain, Tsubasa & Caeda
Three Houses (Both Academy and War Arcs): Bernadetta, Byleth (Male), Felix, Hilda, Yuri
Three Hopes: Bernadetta, Byleth (Male), Felix, Shez (Female), Shez (Male)
Engage: Alear (Female), Alear (Male), Diamant, Ivy, Yunaka

Bold = character is within top 20 of their gender
Edit: Forgot to bold Itsuki, Tsubasa and Touma.

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Altina happens to have the same English voice actress as Igrene (Krizia Bajos), by the way. 

Igrene, meanwhile, is almost certainly leading the Harmonized Hero. We already know that this next Harmonized Hero should be led by a Binding Blade character so if Igrene isn't the lead, then the lead is likely one of Sophia, Fae or Idunn instead.

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8 minutes ago, Jotari said:

Which is precisely why my first two votes were for Bloom and Emperor Alvis. And my next will be for Repter. Justice to the old magic men who are smart enough to wear armour!

I suppose as a kinda side note, I will never forgive IS for how they handled CYL4. CYL Edelgard could have and should have been a Tome Armor.

Instead, it's 2024 and they still refuse to let Edelgard have a ranged weapon of any type. 

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24 minutes ago, Jotari said:

This is the man who should have been the main villain of Thracia.

I mean, we can't even get the actual main antagonist of Thracia (Raydrik) so that doesn't particular bode well for Bloom.

Oh, and the fact that IS adamantly refuses to make a non-seasonal Tome Armor. There's only eleven of them, and all of them except Winter Bruno (who is a Grail unit) appear on Special Hero banners.

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1 hour ago, ARMADS!!! said:

Wait, it's that how it works? The Harmonised is always led by a character from one the titles that is the bonus on the Ressonant battles??

 Also, if the bonus titles are Engage and FE6, then why can't the lead of the harmonic be an Engage character?

Usually when a new Harmonized Hero is released, the first bonus title for the season after the Harmonized Hero is released will match up with the character leading that Harmonized Hero. Then in the season following that one, the first bonus title will instead match up with the character who is the backpack of that Harmonized Hero.

I believe with the second bonus title, they just go down the line in chronological order. So, we get Engage next week since we have just Three Houses *sigh* Tokyo Mirage Sessions Encore this week.

Anyone who knows more than me about this is entirely free to correct me if anything I said above is incorrect.

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The bonus titles for next week's Resonant Battles are Binding Blade and Engage.

So unless if we somehow get a Duo Hero here, the Harmonized Hero should be led by a Binding Blade character. Naturally, that points to Nabata / Arcadia being the theme this time.

This also doesn't hard confirm Nabata / Arcadia because we had Dorothea (Three Houses) being the Harmonized lead for the Plegia (Awakening) banner and Azura (Fates) being the Harmonized lead for the Hatari (Tellius) banner. We could be getting some other theme (which may not even be a desert one) and the Harmonized Hero is led by a character from a different title (Binding Blade, in this case).

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22 minutes ago, Jotari said:

I'm pretty sure Anankos had two voice actors, one as a dragon and one as a human in Heirs of Fates and that the Gunther guy played one of those roles. Unless all the stuff listing that does so because Gunther technically is Anankos briefly.

In Fates, Shimazaki is the one who voiced human Anankos while Naya is the one who voiced dragon Anankos.

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31 minutes ago, Jotari said:

Did he ever find work again?

According to IMDB, Chris Niosi has gotten work (though nothing affiliated with Nintendo) since fumbling the role of M!Byleth. He's been in Genshin Impact (as Ilyas, a quest NPC) and Final Fantasy VII Remake (just as additional voices).

31 minutes ago, Jotari said:

We did end up getting a new voice actor for Anankos after all (didn't we? Or did they just use stock audio or the other Anankos voice actor for that?).

JP Anankos is voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki (also M!Corrin, M!Kana and Kyza), who did voice the human form of Anankos in Fates. It was actually in English where Anankos got recast in FEH (to Imari Williams, who was in Fates as Benny and Fuga but not as Anankos).

JP Gunter is the one where they used stock / preexisting audio of Rokuro Naya, who passed away (on November 17th, 2014) before Fates had even released in Japan.